thanks for the reply,

i put about 15 litres of new fuel into it, any old fuel would have been used up in the fifteen minute idle.

fuel pressure....i tried to take off the two fuel lines that go into the injector, but one of them started spraying so much fuel that i figured pressure was good! i don't think anything came out of the other one, and a local 'mechanic' said that was a return line, i took his word for it. is that right?

certainly fuel is getting to the block, and because the car idled for so long i presume also into the cylinders, as for the actual pressure unless that changed while we were working on it, i don't think that is the problem.

alternator output wasn't measured but even with the car connected to a running/revving engine it wouldn't start, so i don't think that is the issue either. the red charging light only came on as the engine died, as you would expect in a normal working car.

i don't know what a sulfated battery is, but it sounds horrible. i tried jumping the car with the terminals removed from the old battery but this made no difference at all. actually the old battery did seem to be holding a small amount of charge. but for most of the time i had installed a fully working/charged battery while we were working on the car.

so that's where i am at the mo, perhaps a compression test might reveal something.

any more thoughts please share them.

thanks in advance

justin

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